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MAGAZINE FIRE ARM.

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RICHARD MORRIS, OF BLACKHEATH, COUNTY OF KENT, ENGLAND.-

MAGAZINE FIRE-ARM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 376,901, dated January 24, 1888.

Application led September 6, 1857. Serial No. 248,950. (No model.) Patented in England April 20, 1887,No. 5,786; in Belgium August 29, 1887, No. 79,693, and in Italy November 29, 1887, XLIV, 253.

.To all whom it may concern: f

Be itknown that I, RICHARD MoRRIs, a citi` zen of England, residing at Bennett Park,

Blaokheath, in the county of Kent, England,

have invented a new and useful Improvement in Magazines for FirelArm's, (for which Ihave obtained patents in Belgium,dated August 29, 1887, N o. 7 8,693; in Italy,dated November 29, 1887,Vol. XLIV, No. 253, and by an application for patent in Great Britain, dated April 20, 1887, No. 5,786,) of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the construction of the magazine used in connection with a rifle or other fire-arm for holding a number of cartridges ready to be successively brought into line with the barrel and discharged. When such a magazine is xed to the arm with its mouth opening upward, a spring is used to press up the cartridges, and it is a somewhat difficult and tedious operation to retll the magazine with cartridges by introducing them successively at the upper mouth and pressing them down in opposition to the spring. According to my invention I facilitate this operation in the following manner: I make one side of the magazine as a sliding do0r,which can be slid down\vard,leaving the l magazine open on one side for admission of the fresh cartridges. The door acts on astud, which,whenitis pulled down, pulls down with it the movable bottom or platform that is pressed upward by the spring, and this platform,when it is so pulled down, is held down by a latch engaging at the bottom of the magazine. When the magazine is refilled with cartridges,the sliding door is pushed up again, closing them in, and at the last part of its upward movement it releases the latch which held down the platform, leaving itfree to be pressed upward by the spring and to delivercartridge after cartridge at the upper mout of the magazine.

I will describe my invention applied to a ride having a sliding bolt which is advanced to push the cartridge intothe barrel,and which is drawn back to extract and eject the case of the spent cartridge and allow a fresh cartridge to be pushed up in front of it.

Figure 1 is a side view of part of the ride with the magazine attached to it. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section of the magazine. Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse section, and Fig. 4 is a sectional plan on line Y Y ofFig. 2.

The magazine A is a casing made of sheet metal of rectangular form in plan, closed at the two ends and at the back, but open on the front side, which is fitted with a door, B, that can be pulled down, exposing the interior of the magazine, into which fresh cartridges can be introduced at the side thus opened.

In order to guide the door in its sliding movement, an arm, J1, attached tothe door, passes under the bottom of the'magazine and bends upward, so as to form a vertical guidebar, M, that slides within a guide, N, xed, on the back ofthe magazine.

In order to obtain rigidity consistently with lightness, I prefer to make the guide M of a piece of metal plate transversely curved or corrugated,as shown in Fig. 4. Withinthe hollow of M is xed a spring, m,which at m', near its lower end, has a latch projection, and at m2, below that, a projection to receive the pressure of the finger. The latch m', entering a slot,

n., of the guide N, holds the door B when it is pushed up, closing the side of the magazine.

When it is desired to open the side in order to introduce fresh cartridges, the operator takeshold of the front rim of b and presses on m2, so. as to disengage the latch m,and he can then pull the door B down until itis stopped, v

as I Will now describe. 1

Within the magazine the platform or movable bottom D is free to move up or down. It is pressed upward by a spring, d, andpushes the cartridge C up through a slot to the hollow behind the breech and in front of the bolt E. The slot through which the cartridge is pushed up is of such form that the front end of the cartridge can rise through it, as indicated in Fig. l, ready to enter the breech of Athe ride; but the rear end or flange of the cartridge cannot pass through the hinder part of the slot. When the bolt E is advanced, it pushes the cartridge forward to a Wider part of the slot, through which the flange of the cartridge is free to rise While the cartridge is being pushed into the bore.

The platform D loo jects through a long vertical slot, d3, in the door B, and near the front end of the platform D it has another guide-pin, cl2, which projects through along Vertical slot, d", in the back of 5 the magazine. Both the pins cl' and dhave external heads, the head. of cl overlapping the door-slot d3 and the head of cl2 overlapping the back slot, d4. From the middle of the platform D an arm, d5, projects downward and terminates in a latch-hook which can enter a slot, a, in the bottom of the magazine. Then the door B is pulled down, as already described, it moves a certain distance down without moving the platform D; but when t-he end of the door-slot oli comes against the pin cl' the farther descent of the door B brings down the platform D with it until the latch of its arm el5 enters the slot af and is caused by the spring cl to catchy under the edge of the slot. On now pushing up the door B,the pin cl being free in the door-slot di, the platform D remains down until a slot, b, which is made with a sloping edgein the lower limb, b, of the door, acts on the latch of d5, disengaging it from the edge ofthe slot a', and thereupon the platform D is free to be pressed up by the spring cl, delivering cartridge after cartridge to the hollow in front ofthe bolt E.

rIhe magazine may be permanently fixed to the rifle. I prefer, however, to make it removable, so that the ritleman having several charged magazines in his pouch can readily remove an empty magazine and put a charged one in its place. For this purpose I fix on the 35 front end of the magazine a wedge-piece, F,

which can enter and become tightened in the metalpiecef, that holds the strap-ring, and on the rear end of the magazine I make a latch projection, G, which engages with a spring-trigger, g, 'the tail g of which projects from the stock in front of the tiring-trigger. On pressing up the tail g the catch G is released and the magazine can be pulled out of its seating in the stock.

Having thus described the nature of my invention and the best means I know for carrying the same out in practice, I claim- For a breech-loading fire-arm, a detachable magazine, A, having at its front a verticallysliding door, B, with a back guide, M, held 5o up by a spring-catch, in on m2, and having within it a sliding platform, D, urged upward by a spring, d, the said platform having a latch-arm, d5, and pins d d2, guided, respectively, in slots di d* ofthe sliding door and magazine-back, substantially as described.

In testimony whereofI have signed my name to this specification, in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses, this 22d day of August, A. I). 1887.

RICHARD MORRIS.

Vitnesses:

OLIVER IMRAY,

Patent Agent, 28 Southampton Buildings, London,

JNO. P. M. MILLARD,

Clerk to .Messra Abel dft lnrcly, Consulting Engineers and Patent Agents, 28 Southampton Bulldzngs, London, W. Uo 

